Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States (1824)

The Supreme Executive Power appointed provisionally by the Sovereign
Congress of the Nation, to all to whom these presents shall come,
greeting; KNOW ye that the said Sovereign Congress has decreed and
sanctioned the following:

FEDERAL CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED MEXICAN STATES.

In the name of almighty God, supreme author and legislator of
society. The general constituent congress of the Mexican nation in
discharge of the duties imposed upon it by its constituents in order to
fix their political independence, to establish and consolidate their
liberty and to promote their prosperity and glory decree as follows:

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED MEXICAN STATES.

TITLE I.

ONLY SECTION

Of the Mexican Nation, its Territory and Religion.

ARTICLE 1. The Mexican nation is for ever free and independent of the
Spanish government and of every other power.

Article 2. Its territory comprehends the former vice-royalty of New
Spain, the captain-generalship of Yucatan, the former commandancies of
the internal provinces of the East and West and Upper and Lower
California with the lands annexed and the adjacent islands in both
oceans. A constitutional law will be made for designating the
boundaries of the Federation as soon as circumstances will permit.

Article 3. The religion of the Mexican nation shall perpetually remain
the Roman Catholic and Apostolic. The nation protects it by wise and
just laws and prohibits the exercise of any other.